It's the 4th of July! Which explains the exceptionally bad audio quality in this ep. Don't worry though, our RIVETING discussion of the imperial self, Sick Franzen Burns, new poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, what to expect when you're expecting an MFA, and an irony-free send up to dearly departed Denis Johnson will make you forget about the buzzing of ACs and occasional fireworks. ED NOTE: we had a senior moment and mistakenly attributed a Wu-Tang song to Jay-Z, but everything else is 100% correct

It's been several months since our last podcast and we're back so hard we we had to do a double episode, talking about literature's relationship with film. In the first episode, Katrina regrets her PhD and wishes she'd become a real housewife, Tatyana has an opium addiction, both of us love DH Lawrence. Also, Sideways, Girls, Patterson, and which Nicholas Cage would you bone?

We're talking adaptations, particularly two Hulu adaptations, The Handmaid's Tale and Harlots until Tatyana gets her white feminist card revoked and then makes Katrina's whole family uncomfortable by orating excerpts from 18th century prostitute Yelp.